mother

noun mothers · mither

1. A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, fostered, etc). I am visiting my mother any moment.
2. A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby. Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
3. A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.

   Similar: biological mother

4. figuratively A female ancestor. And Adã called his wyfe Heua⸝ becauſe ſhe was the mother of all that lyveth
5. figuratively A source or origin. Near-synonym: matrix

   Similar: matrix

6. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.) Near-synonym: Big One

   Similar: Big One, father, grandfather, granddaddy

7. dated A title of respect for one's mother-in-law. Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
8. dated A term of address for one's wife. A few minutes later we were all seated comfortably, Uncle Dave and mother, as he called his wife, myself and my husband, in the split-bottomed wooden chairs, on the vine-covered porch. / “Is Bethel a Methodist Church?” I asked. / Uncle Dave looked quizzically at his wife. “Do you hear that, mother?”
9. figuratively Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community. Near-synonyms: matron, matriarch

   Similar: matron, matriarch

10. figuratively Any person or entity which performs mothering. Judges 5:7, KJV. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
11. Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air. pieces of mother ;   adding mother to vinegar
12. A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
13. The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
14. The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
15. obsolete Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus. O how this mother ſwels vp toward my hart[…]

    Similar: metro-

16. A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
17. A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt

Similar: dam, mater, matriarch, mother, Mother, Colloquial or slang synonyms:, ma, mam, mama, mamaw, mamma, mammaw, mammy, mamsie, mamsy, meemaw, memaw, minnie, mom, Mom, moms, momma, mommy, Mommy, momsy, motherling, mum, Mum, mummy, Mummy · Opposite: father, daughter, son, child, offspring

verb mothers · mothering · mothered

1. transitive To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight.
2. transitive To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture. She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.
3. transitive To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”). mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine
4. intransitive, of an alcohol To develop mother. Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegar mothered.

noun mothers · mutha

1. euphemistic, mildly, slang, vulgar Motherfucker. (Burn, baby, burn) Disco inferno / (Burn, baby, burn) Burn the mother down
2. colloquial, euphemistic A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".) November, 1943 If ever, Cortney Anders promised himself, I get out of this mother of a thunderstorm there is a thing I will do if it is the last act of my life.

Similar: dam, mater, matriarch, mother, Mother, Colloquial or slang synonyms:, ma, mam, mama, mamaw, mamma, mammaw, mammy, mamsie, mamsy, meemaw, memaw, minnie, mom, Mom, moms, momma, mommy, Mommy, momsy, motherling, mum, Mum, mummy, Mummy · Opposite: father

noun mothers

1. alternative Alternative form of moth-er Often used in jest to describe rare or special moths one has seen in one’s trap, perhaps repeatedly, of which one knows for sure fellow mothers will be envious.

Similar: dam, mater, matriarch, mother, Mother, Colloquial or slang synonyms:, ma, mam, mama, mamaw, mamma, mammaw, mammy, mamsie, mamsy, meemaw, memaw, minnie, mom, Mom, moms, momma, mommy, Mommy, momsy, motherling, mum, Mum, mummy, Mummy · Opposite: father

proper noun

1. dated One's mother.

   Similar: Mom, Mum, Mummy, Goddess

2. One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Maiden and representing a woman older than a girlish Maiden but younger than an aged Crone. ...different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

Opposite: Father

noun Mothers

1. A title given to a nun or a priestess. Mother Teresa Gertrude O’Sullivan, then Provincial, did not give higher education for Loreto nuns the same priority as had Mothers Gonzaga and Stanislaus.
2. A title given to the personification of a force of nature or abstract concept, such as Mother Nature, Mother Russia, or Mother Earth.